Thursday, April 10, 2008

They don't like stickers, what?

So, yesterday in answer to the question about differences in culture (see below), this is what I (Sara-Elizabeth) wrote:
Their personal receptiveness has been very different for me from Latin America. For example, here if I give a sticker to a child, they'll smile shyly and take it and proudly show off their ability to say "Thank you" in English. But that's about it. They certainly don't mob you and beg for more like in Latin America. It seems like even the children here know that Russians know what it means to suffer and aren't sure the future is going to be much different.
HA! Well, they showed us! Yesterday afternoon we went to a school in Rostov and discovered what fourth-grade Russian girls can REALLY do when they get wind of Disney princess stickers. See pictures below to see how Jackie progressively disappears under the mountain of Russian children. She practically had to throw me the bag of stickers so I could put it in my backpack so she could tell them she didn't have anymore! It was hysterical.































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